Memoirs of the famous Soviet/Russian actor, Mikhail Ulianov.

A collection of letters written by Alla Demidova to Tom Bulter. They started writing in 1990, and their correspondence lasted 15 years. Tom Butler is a Harvard University professor and Alla Demidova is a famous Russian actress.

Sidonie C. was born in 1900 and became particularly well-known for being sent to Dr. Freud as a young woman in order to treat her homosexuality. She became a famous case documented by Freud. With vivid language, Ines Rieder and Diana Voigt tell the eventful story of a strong-willed and fascinating woman from an upper-class family whose life was profoundly shattered by the expulsion and...

Full title: 'Boris Rabbot: An Unheeded Voice of the 1960s'. The volume includes most significant works written between 1960 and 2011 by a Russian emigre political scientist, sociologist, journalist and writer who was part of the liberal movement reform that preceded Gorbachev's perestroika, a group frequently ignored by historians. The volume includes excerpts from Rabbot's published and...

The book includes the memoirs of Mikhail Dmitriev (1796-1866), Russian poet and writer.

Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that 'can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist' (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets?and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature....

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration served as a Russian general. He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev, rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino, where he received a mortal wound.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How Christopher Johnson McCandless...

Wolfgang Leonhard was a 13-year-old boy when he had to leave Nazi Germany with his mother and emigrated to the Soviet Union. There he grew up after the arrest of his mother in a home for German and Austrian emigrants, studied at the Moscow Pedagogical College of Foreign Languages and joined the Komsomol. He experienced the outbreak of the German-Soviet war in Moscow and was forcibly resettled...

The book was based on materials from the family archive - memoirs, diaries, letters, photographs, as well as documents from the archives of the NKVD-KGB-FSB, which the authors managed to get acquainted only in 1998-2000. As a result, a story about many and many people connected with family, professional and friendly ties turned out. And broader is the story of the twentieth century, how it...